Humanity’s destruction globally looks inevitable, possibly imminent, using old and new instruments of death in the name of power, religion, God.
Eras of Exodus, Crusade and now Jihad waged in his name, be that Yahweh, The Father or Allah by Jews, Christians and Muslims his chosen peoples instructed through the Torah, Bible and Qu’ran. Read more…
Politicians prophesising in Ulster and throughout Ireland for decades, if not centuries, making speeches predicting doom, death and destruction to mobilise the masses of their constituency have long been a blight on people’s lives.
But rarely have two more unlikely bedfellows from this islands recent political history made such, seemingly, prophetic statements to their respective constituencies as we entered this new dawn of peace in Ulster. Read more…
Rome’s supposed conversion to Christianity, 16-1700 years ago thanks to the Emperor Constantine and his vision then dream to use the symbol of a cross to create the universal Roman and achieve victory for the Roman Empire.
The image of a cross below the sun, is a representation of the ‘image’ first seen by the Roman Emperor Constantine Read more…
Rome had long struggled to cope with the drain on finances as its riches were robbed whilst being transported to Rome. Rome’s Senate could never agree on a means to resolve the problem: provide the conquered with a Roman identity to induce respect, honesty and loyalty. Offering people membership of Rome.
Only those born of or in Rome, with family names could be called Roman. Read more…
Those who had embraced the initial status of ‘quasi’ Roman identity, like the Roman Britanni on Great Britain and elsewhere throughout the empire would be the first to embrace this religion of Rome during the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries spreading the faith, bestowing a universal Roman identity.
The word Catholic comes from the Greek language and translates as ‘universal.’ Read more…
When Jesus of Nazareth supposedly revealed himself as the ‘Christ messiah’ to Constantine at Milvian Bridge, near Rome, in the year later recorded as 311 AD He explained to the Roman Emperor the purpose of the vision Constantine claimed to have seen years earlier. Read more…
Rome’s authority worldwide in the 11th century until the present day and beyond, is underlined through the calendar we use to record time and history.
Pope Gregory determined the year of Jesus’ birth and so our record of the passing years, decades, centuries, millennia begins there. The Gregorian calendar. Read more…
Pope Gregory was a man who abandoned his privileged lifestyle and military standing to pursue a contemplative and reflective lifestyle in the service of Rome’s church He would become Bishop of Rome, reluctantly, in using his military, political and economic wisdom to save the city of Rome and facilitate the future reuniting of Rome’s feuding Western Empire and languishing Eastern Empire. Read more…
Patrick, Andrew, David and George, the four patron saints on Ireland and Great Britain created during the last 1600 years, canonised by Rome, presented for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England: acclaimed as miracle performers: the nations Christian symbols. Read more…
Patrick is the primary patron saint of, or on, the island of Ireland, along with Saints Brigid and Columba. Patrick is believed to have been brought to Ireland as a captured slave in the early 5th century..
The widely accepted details of Patrick on Ireland state he was captured by pagan raiders from Ireland and forced to labour as a shepherd boy, for six years, on the bleak Slemish mountain in County Antrim, Ulster. Read more…
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